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Stories

  • There was once a woman who

    Inger Christensen

    A surprisingly rhyming excerpt from Inger Christensen’s novella « Natalja’s Stories ».

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    Alba de Céspedes

    Eight young women live in a college run by nuns in Rome; an excerpt from Alba de Céspedes’ There’s No Turning Back (Nessuno Torna Indietro).

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    Sergei Lebedev

    Excerpt from Sergei Lebedev’s new novel The Lady of the Mine (2025), set near a Ukrainian coal mine that buries atrocities from the past.

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  • The Ogre, the Monk and the MaidenThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Margaret Drabble

    A story about quarks and antiquarks, beauty quarks and strangelets, gluons, muons, prions, hadrons and charms.

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  • An Unlucky ManThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    Samanta Schweblin

    « He rolled down the window, went back to honking the horn, and started waving my underpants out the window. »

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    Menachem Kaiser

    A short story about fiction, from the author of Plunder.

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  • A rather disproportionate intervention

    Ijoma Mangold

    An excerpt from Ijoma Mangold’s memoir, Das Deutsche Krokodil (The German Crocodile), available in English translation from the DAS Editions imprint of Digitalback Books

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  • By misadventure

    David Mitchell

    A short story about vertigo from the author of Utopia Avenue, Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green. « Possibly a dare, or a rite of passage, hung in the air. Remember their age: most late teenagers are immortal. »

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  • Stupid illnesses called « childhood »

    Marina Jarre

    An excerpt from I padri lontani / Distant Fathers (1987), the rediscovered memoir of Marina Jarre, available in English translation from New Vessel Press.

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  • The final frontier

    Ali Smith

    New short fiction from the author of Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer. A story about what’s ours and what’s not ours.

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